Rapid Access Guide for Pediatric Emergencies: Providing Expert Nursing Care

by Deb Jeffries MSN-Ed, RN, CEN, CPEN, TCRN, Lynn Sayre Visser MSN, RN, PHN, CEN, CPEN, FAEN

Overview

Delineates essential pediatric knowledge and skills that will greatly enhance nursing orientation and ongoing education

This pocket-sized resource for nurses confronting pediatric emergencies provides immediate access to vital, life-saving information. Ideal for a variety of settings, this guide distills the wisdom of expert pediatric emergency clinicians who provide a wealth of critical information from basic foundational knowledge through red flag presentations and triage.

After describing how to best incorporate the guide into practice, the book conveys important contextual information about pediatric developmental stages, anatomy and physiology, and how to communicate effectively with patients and caregivers. This essential resource provides comprehensive triage content; a combination of concept-based learning, disease pathology, and recognition according to body system; and psychosocial considerations. Additionally, behavioral health issues, congenital cardiac anomalies, and children with unique needs, along with assessments, interventions, critical medications, and selected components of resuscitation are covered.

This text provides emergency, urgent care, clinic, school nurses and others, both experienced and inexperienced, with a pocket reference when caring for the pediatric patient. A quick-reference section highlights emergency pediatric procedures and medication administration for at-a-glance information. Chapters contain space for taking notes, inscribing important phone numbers, or pasting facility-specific policies and procedures.

Key Features:

• Concise, pocket-sized, immediate-access format
• Useful for emergency, urgent care, clinic, school, detention center, summer camp settings, and others
• Utilizes a systematic evidence-based approach for the triage, assessment, and identification of appropriate interventions for a variety of clinical presentations
• Describes nursing pearls and critical concepts of pediatric emergency care
• Addresses typical vs. atypical patient presentations
• Provides step-by-step information for pediatric procedures
• Addresses anatomic and physiologic age-specific considerations applicable to each disease pathology or injury
• Icons are used throughout the book to quickly direct the user to specific content areas
• Contains blank note pages for customization

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826152435
Publisher:	Springer Publishing Company
Publication date:	05/28/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	340
File size:	56 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.

About the Author

Deb Jeffries, MSN-Ed., RN, CEN, CPEN, TCRN is a registered nurse with over three decades of experience in critical care and emergency nursing and has dedicated much of her career toward clinical education in the acute care emergency setting. Ms. Jeffries is a TNCC and ENPC course director and an ACLS, PALS, and BLS instructor.

Lynn Sayre Visser, MSN, RN, PHN, CEN, CPEN, FAEN has devoted her 28 year career to emergency nursing, triage education, mentoring others, and writing about topics that impact nursing. Her career has been complemented by experience in prehospital care, ICUs, post-anesthesia care units, and as an organ procurement coordinator. Her passion for quality patient care led her to play instrumental roles in the implementation of a provider in triage, rapid triage assessment, and immediate bedding processes along with formalized triage education in multiple facilities. She is a change-agent and philanthropist and has been published in a variety of arenas. She is the co-author of Fast Facts for the Triage Nurse: An Orientation and Care Guide, Essentials for the Triage Nurse, Rapid Access Guide for Triage and Emergency Nurses, and Rapid Access Guide for Pediatric Emergency Nursing. Her work has been recognized with two American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year awards, the 2019 Emergency Nurses Association (ENA) Media Award, the 2021 ENA Team Award, as well as the 2019 Sigma Theta Tau Edith Moore Copeland Founders Award for excellence in creativity. She holds a Master of Science Degree in Nursing with an emphasis in education and a double Bachelor of Science degree in nursing and exercise physiology.

Table of Contents

Resource Numbers

About the Authors

Title Page

Dedication

Contents

Preface

Contributors and Reviewers

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Part I: INTRODUCTION TO EMERGENCY PEDIATRIC NURSING CARE

Chapter 1: The Secrets to Using this Guide

Chapter 2: Overview of the Care of the Pediatric Patient

Chapter 3: Across the Continuum: Birth through Adolescence

Part II: KEY ISSUES IN EMERGENCY PEDIATRIC NURSING CARE

Chapter 4: Pediatric Triage

Chapter 5: Inadequate Ventilation

Chapter 6: Inadequate Perfusion

Chapter 7: Altered Mental Status

Chapter 8: Cardiovascular Emergencies

Chapter 9: Abdominal Emergencies

Part III: PEDIATRIC EMERGENCIES BY BODY SYSTEM

Chapter 10: Endocrine Emergencies

Chapter 11: Genitourinary Emergencies

Chapter 12: Obstetrical Emergencies

Chapter 13: Musculoskeletal Emergencies

Chapter 14: Eye Emergencies

Chapter 15: Dental, Ear, and Nose Emergencies

Part IV: SPECIAL ISSUES IN EMERGENCY PEDIATRIC CARE

Chapter 16: Infectious Diseases

Chapter 17: Hematology and Oncology Emergencies

Chapter 18: Toxicology Emergencies

Chapter 19: Environmental Emergencies

Chapter 20: Child Maltreatment

Chapter 21: Behavioral Health Emergencies

Chapter 22: Human Trafficking

Chapter 23: Death of a Child

Part V: TRAUMA, BURN, AND DISASTER EMERGENCIES

Chapter 24: Trauma

Chapter 25: Burn Emergencies

Chapter 26: Pediatric Disaster Response

Part VI: PROCEDURES AND MEDICATIONS

Chapter 27: Procedures

Chapter 28: Medication Administration

Notes

References

Index

Ruler

Editorial Reviews

Reviewer: Anne Turner-Henson, PhD, RN, FAAN (University of Alabama at Birmingham)
Description: This pocket-sized guide is an easy-to-use resource for nurses in a variety of settings. The guide covers pediatric emergency triage, assessment, and brief discussions of interventions across the pediatric lifespan.
Purpose: Based on a body systems format, the guide is designed to assist with triage and offer a quick assessment resource to facilitate rapid decision-making in pediatric emergencies. Critical clinical content is presented including high-risk presentation requiring immediate attention/intervention, red flags, triage considerations, and key tips. The objectives are worthy and clearly met.
Audience: The guide is designed as a pocket-sized resource for nurses in a variety of settings. The guide is directed toward nurses in emergency, community urgent care and clinic, and school settings. The guide may be useful for students in advanced practice programs, though it should not be considered a standalone textbook. The authors, Jefferies and Visser, are credible experts as experienced nurse clinicians, educators, and authors in emergency nursing. Jefferies has contributed to standardization, process throughput, and implementation of best practices for emergency department triage. Visser, a change agent and philanthropist, has received multiple book awards. The book's additional contributors are experienced clinical and academic nurses in acute and emergency care.
Features: Pediatric emergency nursing care requires careful attention to developmental and behavioral assessments, anatomy/physiology, and child/adolescent and parental communication, as well as a comprehensive understanding and skills in emergency pediatric care. The book's clinical content is presented in body systems format. Nursing assessment is presented in table format for easy use, including chief complaint questions, assessment, and interventions. High-risk presentations requiring immediate attention or rapid intervention are noted as "red flags." Brief presentations of diagnosis specific information, along with signs/symptoms, interventions, and miscellaneous information is presented in table format. Anatomic, physiologic, and developmental considerations are presented for each disease specific pathology/injury. Helpful tips for pediatric nursing procedures in emergency care are discussed briefly. Unique pediatric factors, such as toxicology emergencies, child maltreatment, behavioral health emergencies, human trafficking, disasters, death, critical medications, and resuscitation components are discussed. The guide covers a wide range of emergency pediatric issues, though it should not be used as a sole reference for clinical practice. The book only briefly covers pediatric emergency clinical topics and should not be considered a comprehensive resource for pediatric nursing providers. The guide may be a useful but brief guide for settings that primarily serve adult populations.
Assessment: This book is designed as a rapid access guide for nurses in a variety of settings. It provides helpful information on triage and assessment of pediatric emergencies, though nursing intervention information is brief. However, lower enthusiasm for the book is due to the brief presentation of clinical information.

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